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CROON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does croon mean? 

CROON (verb)
  The verb CROON has 1 sense:

1. sing softlyplay

  Familiarity information: CROON used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CROON (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they croon  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it croons  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: crooned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: crooned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: crooning  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sing softly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "croon" is one way to...):

sing (produce tones with the voice)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue croon

Derivation:

crooner (a singer of popular ballads)

crooning (the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner)

crooning (singing in a soft low tone)


 Context examples 


Here I heard myself apostrophised as a "hard little thing;" and it was added, "any other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This would always culminate with the master's arms going around White Fang's neck and shoulders while the latter crooned and growled his love-song.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Youth will be served,” said a crooning voice from the other side of the table.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There lay the Ghost, bow on to the beach, her splintered bowsprit projecting over the sand, her tangled spars rubbing against her side to the lift of the crooning waves.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Black Simon of Norwich crouched amid the rocks, crooning an Eastland ballad to himself, while he whetted his sword upon a flat stone which lay across his knees; while beside him sat Alleyne Edricson, and Norbury, the silent squire of Sir Oliver, holding out their chilled hands towards the crackling faggots.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The master rubbed his ears, and he crooned his love-growl.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It sounded like the gurgling of a brook over mossy stones in some quiet dell, and the crooning song of it lured me away and out of myself till I was no longer Hump the cabin-boy, nor Van Weyden, the man who had dreamed away thirty-five years among books.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No caress of theirs could put the love-croon into his throat, and, try as they would, they could never persuade him into snuggling against them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Beyond his snuggling and the throwing of a crooning note into his love-growl, he had no way of expressing his love.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And White Fang was growling responsively, the crooning note of the growl more pronounced than ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)



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